Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009
Abstract
The state of the art in semi-structured data processing (and XML in particular) and Semantic web repositories corresponds each other: the non-scalability of pilot implementations, the inability of optimizations, and the cost of the fully native implementation. Although there are successful implementations in each of the approaches, none of the methods may be considered universal. The goal of the Bobox project is an implementation of a relational-like storage engine applicable both as a native XML database and as a semantic web repository.
The main purpose of the engine is in experiments in both areas. The main stress is put to the performance of complex queries and transformations, and to the ability of parallel evaluation in particular.